There are glimpses of a world where social networks are a force for good, the way they lowered ethnic tensions in Bosnia. People randomly chosen to deactivate Facebook had more dislike of other ethnic groups after, since it was the only place they met people from those groups!
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Boycotts and Buycotts: Limited Long-Term Impact on Companies
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Boycotts & buycotts (where supporters buy the product to reward the company) against companies for the social positions they take are generally short-lived & have relatively little impact. A thread of recent research https://
x.com/emollick/statu
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Entrepreneurial Decision Making Under Uncertainty
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I think about #10 & #11 a lot. They apply to entrepreneurs & also basically any expert who has ever had to make a decision under uncertainty.
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Complex Systems Failure: Why Cascading Failures Plague Modern Infrastructure
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Read these 3 pages. I post them every so often because I think it is some of the tightest, wisdom-packed writing on managing complex systems ever. And almost every system is a complex system today, which is why cascading failures are swirling around us. https://
researchgate.net/publication/22
8797158_How_complex_systems_fail
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Wikipedia and SCP Foundation: Internet’s Most Successful Social Networks
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The only large, long-term, productive social network to come out of the first 40 years of Internet may be Wikipedia. And possibly the SCP Foundation shared story universe.
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Fair Layoff Communication Reduces Employee Litigation Risk
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Layoffs are terrible, but they are even worse if employees think the process was unfair & obscure. They act accordingly. In this study, 17% of people who felt that their employer was unfair about a layoff sued, compared to 1% of those who felt that the process was clear & honest
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Twitter’s Role in Fostering Innovation Through Open Knowledge Exchange
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I really would like Twitter, the platform & community, to thrive. It actually can boost innovation. Among the social networks, it is uniquely open. You can follow diverse people in other fields, which can help spark new ideas & insights. It has for me! https://
sloanreview.mit.edu/article/how-tw
itter-users-can-generate-better-ideas/
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Memes as Organic Components Shaping Digital Environment Complexity
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“[Memes] appear as fundamental components of an organic process that affects and conditions the digital environment and produces evolving forms of visual and textual complexity.” pic.twitter.com/ufNdI8ElYF
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 novembre 2022“[Memes] appear as fundamental components of an organic process that affects and conditions the digital environment and produces evolving forms of visual and textual complexity.”
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Memepocalypse: exponential meme evolution and cultural implications
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In the end, we will be outnumbered by our own memes. Meme types are doubling every 6 months. And they are evolving more visual complexity over time. The memepocalypse is inevitable. https://
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Democracy increases moral universalism globally survey finds
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Giant worldwide survey looks at universalism (a willingness to treat strangers the same way you treat friends/community members) & finds 26% of people are strongly universalist & 18% are the opposite. Exposure to democracy causally increases universalism. https://
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/
moral-universalism-global-evidence
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